Site Information

Disclosure

In compliance with FTC guidelines, please assume the following about all links on this website: Since I share products and services I use and love with my readers, assume that I may receive a small commision if you buy something or subscribe to a service from a link on this website (at no additional cost to you). If you do buy some- thing, thanks for your support!

Among others, we are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Pages on this site may include affiliate links to Amazon and its affiliate sites on which the owner of this website may make a referral commission.

COAST DIST. RGE 3, S.W. 1/4 OF LOT 1212, ON RIGHT BANK OF WEST ROAD RIVER, 3 MILES NORTH OF CLUCHUTA LAKE

64.8

08324

CLUCHUTA LAKE 10B

COAST DIST. RGE. 3, LOT 1421, ON RIGHT BANK OF THE WEST ROAD RIVER, WEST OF AND ADJOINING I.R. NO. 10A

4.5

08325

TZETZI LAKE 11

COAST DIST. RGE3, LOT 1422 AND N. 1/2 OF LOT 1217, ON THE WEST ROAD RIVER, NORTH OF BLUE (TZETZI) LAKE

64.7

08326

KUSHYA CREEK 12

COAST DISTRICT RANGE 4, LOT 2722, 3 MILES WEST OF KLUSKUS LAKE

16.2

08327

CHIEF MORRIS 13

COAST DISTRICT, RANGE 4, LOT 2719, 5 MILES EAST OF KLUSKUS LAKE

129.5

08328

KLUSKUS 14

COAST DISTRICT RANGE 4, LOT 2715 5 MILES EAST OF THE 6 EASTERLY KLUSKUS LAKE

48.6

08329

TATELKUS LAKE 28

COAST DISTRICT, RANGE 4, AT NORTH END OF TATELKUZ LAKE

125.8

Communities:

Kluskus First Nation has no year-round road access to a service centre. Access into the area from the access management point on the Gold Road near Lavoie Lake is by horseback, ATV, or walking.

Alternate instructions to reach the village of Kluskus: Travel 115 kilometers west of Quesnel in central British Columbia. At road’s end you go perhaps 40 minutes further down a logging road. Then, on something resembling a road, travel another 53 kilometers into the bush. On good winter road, you can leave Quesnel and arrive in just under 5 hours. During spring thaws, it can take from 8 hours to three days.

The Carrier-Chilcotin communities are part of the Southern Carrier Nation and Tsilhqot’in Nation whose territories are in the watersheds of the Chilcotin River, the Blackwater River, the Dean River, the Quesnel River and others. Others will know this territory as part of the Cariboo-Chilcotin in the interior of British Columbia, Canada.

The Kluskus zone includes the Jerryboy Hills in the southeast corner, and the Nechako Range, which crosses from the northwest to southeast corners along the western boundary. The zone is well-accessed and is known as the “bread and butter” area for moose habitat. Tourism activities include guided hunts and a survival school.

Treaties:

Population: 197 as of September, 2007Language: Carrier

The native language is a member of the Blackwater dialect group of Carrier, an Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit language. Its closest linguistic relatives are the Lhk’acho and Ndazko dialects of Carrier. 0.3% of the band members speak their native language as a first language.

Tribal Culture:

Traditional Carrier territory includes the area along the Fraser River from north of Prince George to south of Quesnel, the Nechako Valley, the areas around Stuart Lake, Trembleur Lake, Takla Lake, Fraser Lake, and Babine Lake, the Bulkley Valley, and the region along the West Road River, west to the Coast Range, including the Kluskus Lakes, Ootsa Lake and Cheslatta Lake.

Sacred Places:

There are extensive archaeological values in this zone, especially around the large lakes. Kuyakuz Mountain and Tatelkuz Lakes both have sites sacred to the Kluskus Band.

Just to the east of the area in the river corridor there are numerous catalogued village sites, a Nazko battle and legend site and obsidian source. The area is jointly claimed as traditional territory by the Lhoosk’uz (Kluskus) and Nazko First Nations, as well as by Sai’ Kuz (Stoney Creek) First Nation.